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“In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.”

Political Purpose Order Feminism Gay Activism Division Insisting Gay And Straight

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order.”

Writing Years Littles Said Ends Eye Order Rich Written Feminism Visiting

Book:Don't Get Me Started

Source: Don't Get Me Started

“If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.”

Ifs Years Mean Has Beens Order Natural Feminism Thousand Female Males Feminist Sexism Ownership Thousand Years

Book:Just As I Thought

Source: Just As I Thought

“Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.”

Knows Mind States Whole Order Social Realizing Fire Feminism Position Cooking Heavy Iron Pot State Of Mind Boston Social Order Housekeeping

Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

“In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.”

Heart Doe Self Form Order Understanding Black Struggle Feminism Projects Female Determination Revolutionary Collectives Self Determination Vehicle Domination Critique

Author:Bell Hooks

“Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism.”

Order Choices Principles Feminism Embrace Feminist Consistent Imperialism Militarism Corporatism

Author:Jill Stein

“Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.”

Feels Believe Seems Order Powerful Feminism Subservient Another Woman

Author:Tori Amos

“By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves.”

Men Use Feelings Problem Order Social Grows Brain Known Growing Up Feminism Son Fool Warm Upbringing Social Order Love Freedom

Author:Eugenio Maria de Hostos

“Another basic characteristic of liberalism which constitutes a formidable obstacle to an oppressed group's liberation is its conception of human nature. If selfishness, aggressiveness, the drive to conquer and dominate, really are among defining human traits, as every liberal philosopher since Locke tries to convince us, the oppression in civil society—i.e. in the social sphere not regulated by the state—is a fact of life, and the basic civil relationship between a man and a women will always remain a battlefield. Woman, being less aggressive, is then either the less human of the two and doomed to subjugation, or else she must get more power-hungry herself and try to dominate man. Liberation for both is not feasible.”

Order Power Relationship Feminism Human Man Woman Liberalism Aggression Domination Subjugation

Author:Mihailo Markovic